Small Changes Can Make Big Differences

Gina Grant  Down Syndrome Ireland

Helping Teachers Understand Challenging Behaviour through the Lens of Special Needs

Dillons Hotel

This Book which aims to support mainstream teachers in understanding the strengths and needs of children with learning difficulties. ‘Small Changes Can Make Big Differences – Behaviour Management through the Lens of Special Education Needs’ examines the behaviour of children with additional needs and urges mainstream teachers to view this behaviour through the lens of a child’s diagnosis.

In the book, Dr Daly provides strategies for new and experienced mainstream teachers that focus on setting up classroom environments that support and encourage appropriate behaviour; consider the particular needs and strengths of children with learning difficulties; and recognise the mandate for class teachers to care for and educate all children. It further shows how these small changes can make truly big differences for children with additional needs as well as for their peers. Using case studies of children with autism, dyslexia, ADHD and down syndrome / general learning disability, from presentation to resolution, the book shows thirty examples of small changes to support behaviour management in constructive and sensitive ways.

Speaking at the launch of her book, which took place at MIC Limerick, Dr Patricia Daly said, “This book would never exist without the access teachers gave me to their classrooms and their practice. For over thirty years, I was privileged to visit hundreds of classrooms both here in Ireland and in the US where I sat and watched and listened to teachers teaching children with additional needs. Their varied and creative interventions that worked and sometimes failed to work showed me the primacy of mainstream teachers in facilitating meaningful inclusion one child at a time.”

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